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Motivational yogurt lids gone wrong

I don’t know if you have them in your country as well (I certainly don’t know any in Germany), but here in Japan some of the yogurts have motivational messages and quotes on their underside. So when you eat your yogurt in the morning you might get an motivational “Today will be a great day!” or maybe even a well-meant advise like “Eat more Apples, they are healthy”.

But today, sitting alone at home, on the sofa next to the window that looks out over the street and a pedestrian bridge, the following message was just a teensy bit creepy…

“There is certainly someone seeing/watching you” …
I suppose that was meant to be a “Don’t be sad if you feel alone, there’s certainly someone out there who already has you on his/her mind”, but I couldn’t help taking it literally.
And it is literally creepy.